Terry recalls, "Then you guys panned the camera to our house, and we all broke out in tears. Our grandchildren were there, our daughter was there, and everybody had tears in our eyes because our house was saved."

The Trexlers finally returned to their home two weeks after the fire, to find not only their neighbor's home gone, but virtually every other house around them reduced to rubble. And while they are certainly grateful their family treasures were spared, they are also painfully aware, that so many of their best friends lost so much.

"You want to hug everybody," a tearful Bonnie Trexler explained. "You just have no words to describe the feeling that they have, because you are not them."

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